(Sharpay POV)

Riiiiiiiing! The shrill ring of the tardy bell was heard overhead. I frantically ran down the hallway. That was definitely the last time I would count on Ryan to wake me up for school I thought. I finally reached Mr. Smith's 8th grade English class. He was busy writing the warm up on the board as I quietly tip-toed in. I slid into my seat, thinking I had gotten away with it.

"Nice try Miss Evans. That would be your 10th tardy of the month; you will serve a 1 hour detention with me today after school. I don't know how your previous school ran things, but here at Albuquerque Junior High tardies are not permitted!" With that he continued writing the warm up.

(Btw if you're wondering where Ryan is, he won't be in this story that much. I'm still debating on it, but for now he's home schooled.)

By the end of the day I was beyond ready to go home. I was so tired. But I remembered my detention, so I walked there in a foul mood. I walked into Mr. Smith's class and saw that Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton were there, goofing around and laughing at each other. My heart started to speed up as soon as I saw Troy. I secretly had a teensy weensy crush on Troy. I mean, who could resist that smile? Or his beautiful blue eyes? But I figured that he and Gabriella were into each other. They were always with each other. And they've been best friends since like elementary school. But for some reason they wouldn't admit their obvious love for each other. Well at least Gabriella's crush on Troy was obvious, Troy was just too oblivious. I sat down two seats down from the "happy couple." I pulled out a magazine and prayed time would fly by.

15 minutes later

"Alright well I'm going to go get some papers from the office. You guys better behave. If you aren't in your seats by the time I get back, you will be in serious trouble," Mr. Smith said.

The second Mr. Smith walked out Troy stood up and stretched. "My god, I was seriously about to go insane! Ditching fourth period to watch the basketball players' and the cheerleaders practice was so not worth this."

Gabriella smirked at him. "Oh puh-lease, like you didn't enjoy seeing the dumb cheerleaders kicking and cheering like idiots."

"Well at least I wasn't the one drooling all over the basketball players, now was I?" he retorted.

"You're just jealous because you wish you were as popular as them. The sad part is you could actually be a popular jock, except you're too scared to tryout," Gabriella replied.

"Okay, whatever," he mumbled.

Gabriella laughed and punched his arms. "You know it's true!" she said.

I was pretending not to listen to their conversation, and accidentally slid my magazine to the ground. Gabriella turned around and picked it up for me.

"Is that Amanda Bynes on the cover? I absolute love her, especially in "What A Girl Wants," Gabriella gushed. I looked at her in surprise. "Are you for real? Me too! I loved watching it in the theater, but my brother was too busy complaining the whole time I couldn't even enjoy it," I replied.

"Same here! Except I took this loony here with me," she indicated towards Troy who in turn stuck his tongue out at her. "By the way I'm Gabriella and that dork over there is Troy." Troy gave Gabriella a dirty look but gave me a small smile. "You're new right?" I nodded.

"Anways yeah, I love Amanda Bynes, she's so funny. You know what? "What A Girl Wants" is on cable tonight and I was gonna watch it again with Troy. You should totally come over and watch it with us."

I looked at her in surprise. I had been at this school for like 4 months, and not one person talked to me. Well there was one girl, if you counted Kelsi, but she was a little too shy and quiet for me. I smiled brightly. "Sure I'd totally love to."

"Well you should come over right after school with me. Maybe we can even have a sleepover! You have no idea how boring it is having a sleepover with a guy all the time! I mean all we ever do is play videogames. Not that I have a problem with it, but it gets boring," she laughed.

Troy looked at her with a fake hurt look on his face. "Are you actually calling me, Troy Bolton, boring?!"

Gabriella and I giggled. "We would never even dare to consider that Troy," I said. "But wait, your parents are actually okay with you guys having sleepovers together?"

Troy put his arm around Gabriella who started blushing, but of course Troy didn't notice. "Of course, we've known each other since we were in kindergarten. Gabi's mom knew my mom from college. Gabi's practically my little sister." He didn't notice Gabriella's face drop at the "little sister" part.

The bell rang. "Well I guess detention's over. Come on Sharpay, you can walk to my house with me and Troy if you want to," Gabriella offered.

I smiled brightly. "Sure, but only if Troy's okay with it. I don't want to like intrude or anything."

"Why would I have a problem with that? It's nice to have around a cute girl who doesn't punch me every two seconds," he joked.

"You're lucky I'm in a good mood Bolton!" Gabriella replied.

I laughed at them as we started walking. "Oh, you guys wanna share a three musketeers bar with me?"

Troy and Gabriella nodded. Little did we know, as we walked home munching on our candy, we would soon become known as the three musketeers ourselves.

Aha so how did you like the first chapter? Review pretty please! :D